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Article 152
The mandate of Deputy or of Senator is incompatible with any other function of
public character. An organic law may exempt certain categories of local elected
[persons] or of agents of the State from the regime of incompatibility with the
mandate of Deputy or of Senator.
Article 153
An organic law establishes the regime of indemnities and advantages of the Deputies
and the Senators as well as the regime of the incompatibilities. It equally specifies
their specific regime of social security.
• Earnings disclosure requirement
Article 154
At the moment of entering into [their] functions and at the end of them, the members
of the Bureaus of the National Assembly and of the Senate are required to make on
their honor a written declaration of their assets and patrimony addressed to the
Supreme Court.
• Eligibility for cabinet
Article 155
A Deputy or a Senator appointed to the Government or any other public function
incompatible with the parliamentary mandate and who accepts it, ceases
immediately to sit in the National Assembly or in the Senate and is replaced by their
substitute.
The Deputy or the Senator placed in one of the cases specified in the preceding
paragraph resumes their functions as soon as the incompatibility has disappeared
and provided that the mandate for which they were elected is in course.
• Attendance by legislators
• Removal of individual legislators
Article 156
The mandate of Deputy and that of Senator ends by the death, the resignation, the
permanent incapacity and the unjustified absence in more than one-quarter of the
sittings [séances] of a session or when the Deputy or the Senator falls into one of the
cases of forfeiture specified by an organic law.
Article 157
• Public or private sessions
Except in the case of force majeure duly declared by the Constitutional Court, the
deliberations of the National Assembly and of the Senate are only valid if they take
place in the ordinary place of their sessions.
• Public or private sessions
The sittings of the National Assembly and of the Senate are public. However, the
National Assembly and the Senate may meet in closed [sitting] in the case of need.
• Publication of deliberations
The record of the debates of the National Assembly and of the Senate is published in
the Journal Parlementaire [Parliamentary Gazette].
Article 158
The Parliament votes the law and controls the action of the Government.
Burundi 2005
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